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A LITERARY LET TER: A Great and Valuable Series The Vogue of Peacock English and German Misunderstandings

... for example, four novels that may rank as literature, the authors being Henry James, Anthony Hope, Arnold Bennett, and Joseph Conrad. I hope to write about all four in due., course. Leaving fiction and coming to belles lettres I note a new edition of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2492 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Under Western Eyes

... Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. Methuen The Slav never fails of fascination for us, Christian though he be, and European as we fondly think him; yet so exotic a compound of the barbaric and the mystic, at once so simple, so elusive, and so cynical ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Hueffer is known more especially as the author of The Fifth Queen, The Fifth Queen Crowned, and as collaborator with Mr. Joseph Conrad in Romance and The Inheritors. Miss Violet Hunt, who is Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer's second wife, is best known as author ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1305 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Most Popular Novels of the Hour--Mrs. Alfred Trench--James the Second in Exile

... here are at least a dozen such novels of the moment:-- Hilda Lessways; By Arnold Bennett. Methuen Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. (Methuen.) ft Peter and Wendy. By J. M. Barrie. Hodder Stough- A ton.) A Ship's Company. By W. W. Jacobs. llodder Stough- ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2349 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY.LOUNGER: MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND; Joseph Conrad's Ego

... '..'.'.'.■.■'■■-■.■Wu) II. -in J.. ..nl,!i (H MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND Joseph Conrad's Ego. It is impossible to deal adequately in a column with Mr. Joseph Conrad's ego, as revealed by himself. His are not as other Reminiscences. cences. The ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The late Richard Middleton--The New Novels of the Autumn--New Light on James III

... has one en titled The Lost World, another is Mr. E. V. Lucas's London Lavender. Mr. H. G. Wells's Marriage is a third, Joseph Conrad's 'Twixt Land and Sea a fourth. TV/T r. H. B. Marriott Watson's new novel is entitled The Big Fish. Mr. Jeffery Farnol ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2372 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

'Twixt Land and Sea

... 'Twixt Land and Sea. By Joseph Conrad. {J. M. Dent and Sous.) Mr. Conrad has long been known for a lover of the sea. Like Jacob for Rachel, he has served for her, and not so much to make her his as to make himself hers. There are those of us who would ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Novel with a Style

... A LITERARY LETTER A Novel with a Style. al z\| London, February 2, 1914. Mr. Joseph Conrad published his first novel in 1895-- Almayer's Folly-- and, as I think, his best novel, The Nigger of the Narcissus in 1897. He is responsible for some eighteen ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: Some Recent Books: A Rally of Poets

... Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, which it would be impertinence to praise as one of his' masterpieces. Then there is Joseph Conrad's' 'Twixt Land and Sea, and Conrad is one of the classics of ;our day. The series will appeal apart from fiction, for we ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3245 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: You Never Know Your Luck

... manner nr\ rtnn iifi-vtil/1 +/xr* n mr\monJ nnrtrorn in 1JLI LD1JC WUUIU tx II1U111L.11L ULOliaiU LV_ give a place to Mr. Joseph Conrad. A new book by him is always an event in my eyes. It is clearly also an event in the eyes of that mysterious person, the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1428 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Victory

... Victory. Bv Joseph Conrad. Methuen A disillusioned old Swedish philosopher lay dying in London, and at his bedside sat his only son, to whom his wisdom crystallised in the direction Look on make no sound. They were the last words of a man who had spent ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 481 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... his back upon it, though in his heart he had he-rd the call, which later comes again. The Shadow-Line: A Confession. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 5s. The purpose of this book is expressed in the query on the outside cover Why did the captain and the silent ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review